Finley Peter Dunne first adopted the Hiberno-English patois in his newspaper columns as a defensive ruse, to confuse lawyers ...

In wartime Naples or Castro’s Cuba, the inconspicuous writer-traveller was a vivid chronicler of unseen worlds.

Our good friends from the City Library, Quinn McQueen and Michelle Cao are here to share their March picks for the GTU book club. This list will ...

Watching over the Gateway A worker is dwarfed by the grand façade of the Gateway of India that is undergoing repairs in ...

It is good to know which top luxury hotels in London have the best pools, particularly if you are travelling with your family ...

Zionism and the Arabs Moshe Smilansky, a founder of Rehovot in 1890, became intimately familiar with Arabs in the country. He contended in his essay Be-Moledet (The Homeland) in 1915 that, the Arab ...

She wrote seven books in a series that went on to be a hit TV show. After she was replaced by ghostwriters, she reclaimed her ...

Mariam Rahmani’s debut novel is both charmingly familiar and totally unpredictable.

The opening of the Joan Didion and John Gregory Dunne archives in the New York Public Library reveals unseen aspects of their ...

Xiong’an is being built on a stretch of nondescript agricultural land about three times the size of New York City. The site ...

Hall, a 15-year-old girl with a passion for books, is spreading her love of reading through her nonprofit called One Word Reading Initiative, where she gives books to children in need. She was ...

Nigerian American writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie published her third novel, “Americanah,” which cemented her reputation as an international literary star. Since then, she has published an epistolary ...